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Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength (2024)
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Purpose-The call for supply chain transparency (SCT), especially the Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspect, is getting increasingly louder. Based on the signaling theory, our study investigates the operational benefit of supply chain tra... Read More about Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength.

The future of the food supply chain: a systematic literature review and research directions towards sustainability, resilience, and technology adoption (2023)
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In recent years, our food supply chain facing various disruptions shows a need for higher resilience and sustainability. To better prepare for future uncertainties the food supply chain may encounter, it is imperative to understand the status quo of... Read More about The future of the food supply chain: a systematic literature review and research directions towards sustainability, resilience, and technology adoption.

Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience (2023)
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The Covid-19 pandemic has extremely affected the manufacturing supply chain (SC) highlighting the need to deploy dynamic capabilities (DCs) such as supply chain resilience (SCRes) that enable companies to react rapidly and exploit intangible assets t... Read More about Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: the role of resilience.

Digitalization and network capability as enablers of business model innovation and sustainability performance: the moderating effect of environmental dynamism (2023)
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In the face of relentless global competition and regulatory pressures, the imperative for firms to digitally transform has become critical. This is particularly salient for Chinese manufacturing firms as they strive for sustainability, a multidimensi... Read More about Digitalization and network capability as enablers of business model innovation and sustainability performance: the moderating effect of environmental dynamism.

Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective (2023)
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In the digitalization era, business model innovation (BMI) has become the critical keystone for platforms to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in turbulent environments. However, platform BMI is currently not clearly understood. Through a long... Read More about Platform business model innovation in the digitalization era: A “driver-process-result” perspective.

Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19 (2022)
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly augmented the complexity of information, adding to the challenges that firms face in effectively processing and grasping accurate information. As a result, the production uncertainty of firms ha... Read More about Investigating the relationship between digital technologies, supply chain integration and firm resilience in the context of COVID-19.

Wield the Power of Omni-channel Retailing Strategy: a Capability and Supply Chain Resilience Perspective (2021)
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Omni-channel strategy can be a powerful mechanism through which successful implementing organisations achieve higher levels of resilience to better survive disruptions. However, such potential benefits have been overlooked in existing literature with... Read More about Wield the Power of Omni-channel Retailing Strategy: a Capability and Supply Chain Resilience Perspective.

Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular economy in private manufacturing enterprise performance (2018)
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Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., Wu, L., Shen, T., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., …Shen, T. (2019). Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular economy in private manufacturing enterprise performance. International Journal of Production Research, 57(23), 7219-7234. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1530467

The new product development (NPD) process–performance link has been sufficiently studied in academic research. However , recent NPD process is significantly different from the conventional NPD specifically with the inclusion of sustainability conside... Read More about Role of traditional Chinese philosophies and new product development under circular economy in private manufacturing enterprise performance.

A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives (2018)
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Wu, L., Subramanian, N., Gunasekaran, A., Pawar, K., Doran, D., & Dan‐Asabe Abdulrahman, M. (2018). A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives. Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(8), 1117-1130. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2055

Sustainability studies in operations management have reported the positive effects of lean, green, and social management systems on various dimensions of a firm’s sustainability performance. However, despite its high importance and relevance, the tim... Read More about A two-dimensional, two-level framework for achieving corporate sustainable development : assessing the return on sustainability initiatives.

Short-term versus long-term benefits: balanced sustainability framework and research propositions (2016)
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Wu, L., Subramanian, N., Abdulrahman, M. D., Liu, C., & Pawar, K. S. (2017). Short-term versus long-term benefits: balanced sustainability framework and research propositions. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 11, 18-30

Sustainability research has been expanding rapidly during recent decades. Such research takes various forms with the identification of mixed results. Even though there are several review articles on sustainability with valuable insights, the time dim... Read More about Short-term versus long-term benefits: balanced sustainability framework and research propositions.

Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation (2016)
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Wang, Z., Subramanian, N., Abdulrahman, M. D., Cui, H., Wu, L., & Liu, C. (2017). Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 11, 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2016.08.002

Port sustainable services innovation depends on understanding and matching customers' expectations with unique service offerings using advanced facilities. This study develops and validates a port sustainable services decision model to investigate cu... Read More about Port sustainable services innovation: Ningbo port users’ expectation.

Green competence framework: evidence from China (2015)
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Subramanian, N., Abdulrahman, M. D., Wu, L., & Nath, P. (in press). Green competence framework: evidence from China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1047394

Recently human resources management functions such as recruitment, selection, training and performance evaluation are expected in considering environmental management issues. Environmental protective acts with adequate ecological knowledge and socio-... Read More about Green competence framework: evidence from China.

The impact of integrated practices of lean, green, and social management systems on firm sustainability performance: evidence from Chinese fashion auto-parts suppliers (2015)
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Wu, L., Subramanian, N., Abdulrahman, M., Liu, C., Lai, K.-H., & Pawar, K. (2015). The impact of integrated practices of lean, green, and social management systems on firm sustainability performance: evidence from Chinese fashion auto-parts suppliers. Sustainability, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/su7043838

To better satisfy various stakeholders, firms are seeking integrated practices that can enhance their sustainability performance, also well known as the Triple Bottom Line (3BL). The fashion industry exhibits potential conflicts with the spirit of su... Read More about The impact of integrated practices of lean, green, and social management systems on firm sustainability performance: evidence from Chinese fashion auto-parts suppliers.